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JOURNEY TO THE FAR AMAZON, by Alain Gheerbrant. This Frenchman's account of a journey into the Amazon jungles was probably the most exciting and certainly the best written adventure book of the year...
...time when Rome was young. One tomb contained the skeleton of a young Etruscan woman with a necklace of Baltic amber and a beautifully worked gold brooch an inch and a half in diameter. Another yielded a gold diadem seven inches across, decorated with bearded heads and an Amazon shooting an arrow. Equally interesting are the bronzes, one of which, a candelabra, shows the figure of Hermes leading a soul to the underworld...
Cranston Jones, who inherited White's 9 o'clock tutoring appointment in Rio, had been in Brazil only two weeks when he had to go to Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon, to cover a plane-crash story. Late one evening, he found himself lost in the town, and worse, he could not remember the name of his hotel. The people on the sidewalk spoke no French or English; he had not yet learned Portuguese. "Finally," says Jones, "a padre shouldered his way through the crowd and asked me if I spoke Latin. I went...
JOURNEY TO THE FAR AMAZON (353 pp.) - Alain Gheerbrant - Simon & Schusfer...
Pants in the Ants. In Journey to the Far Amazon, Explorer Alain Gheerbrant tells how, with one Colombian and two Frenchmen, he plunged into the "green hell" of the Sierra Parima between Venezuela and Brazil. That vast sea of vegetation, never before crossed by a white man, was filled with reptiles, insects and maiir eating fish, all unfriendly. One night in a grotto a scraping noise awakened Gheerbrant. It was an advancing column, 16 inches wide, of red ants. They had already devoured his belt, half his trousers and were starting on his leather camera case...